smartwith heart
Senior Quality Engineer (Test Automation)
Antwerp, Belgium - Product department
Are you a committed bug hunter with a keen interest in methodology, efficiency, and optimization? Do you enjoy developing qualitative test environments, frameworks, and procedures? Ready to join a place where smart solutions meet human collaboration?
If that’s the case, we’ve got the job for you. Read on to learn more.
Our offer
We offer you more than just a job. Our culture and benefits inspire you to become the best version of yourself.
- Continuous learning: Access customized training, coaching programs, and on-the-job development opportunities.
- Flexibility: Flex your schedule with working from home, adaptable hours, and the autonomy to shape your routine.
- Benefits: An attractive salary package including an optional company car, a bike incentive program, additional extralegal vacation days, and other competitive benefits.
- Collaborative culture: Cross-team collaboration and creative challenges that encourage you to share knowledge, celebrate wins, and grow together.
- Innovation: Encouragement to think differently through cross-team collaboration and innovation challenges
- Well-being: Thrive in a workplace that supports your physical and mental health by promoting a wide range of facilities and activities like birthday events, sports sessions, in-house coaches, and healthy meal options.
Our company
We’re a leading game changer that optimizes supply chains with our very own smart software and services. With a team of 1,400+ passionate, creative minds from over 70 nationalities, we help the world’s largest companies to run their supply chains more efficiently and sustainably. Our customers include BASF, Johnson & Johnson, L’Oréal, Nestlé, and Procter & Gamble. Ready to be smart with heart? Join our team where technical expertise and human connection create solutions that scale globally and make a lasting impression.
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Your challenge
As a Senior Quality Engineer (Test Automation), you play a key role in ensuring the quality of our products and development processes. You help teams deliver reliable software by promoting quality-first engineering practices, designing maintainable automation solutions, coaching colleagues, and driving continuous improvement across the software development lifecycle.
You combine deep technical expertise in test automation with a strong quality mindset. You look beyond finding defects and focus on preventing them by improving processes, tooling, collaboration, and engineering practices.
You'll join our Quality Engineering team, which builds quality into the product from the start rather than inspecting it at the end, enabling sustainable delivery of high-quality software through automation, collaboration, coaching, and continuous improvement.
You are responsible for:
- Developing and maintaining reliable automated tests using Playwright and TypeScript, and reviewing automation code to raise quality standards.
- Eliminating flaky tests and unstable environments to improve suite stability and execution speed.
- Promoting a quality-first mindset by shifting quality earlier and focusing on meaningful quality over test quantity.
- Coaching colleagues and sharing knowledge to strengthen collaboration and advocate best practices across teams.
- Challenging existing ways of working and implementing improvements that enhance product quality and processes.
- Communicating quality topics clearly across the software development lifecycle.
About you
Essential talents and qualifications:
- Strong experience in software testing and test automation, including UI automation with Playwright and TypeScript and API testing.
- Solid understanding of testing principles and strategies, with experience reviewing automation code and enforcing quality standards.
- Experience with modern CI/CD platforms and development workflows.
- Strong analytical and problem-solving skills with a proactive, continuous-improvement mindset.
- Excellent communication and collaboration skills.
- Experience working in Agile development environments.
Bonus points if you have:
- Experience with performance, load, or scalability testing and observability tools.
- Ability to analyze system behavior under load.
- Familiarity with Kubernetes and cloud technologies
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Your future
We find the perfect intersection of your talents and our evolving needs. Our talent management program supports your personal development and empowers you to build a career in line with your ambitions.Many of our team members who start as Senior Quality Engineer (Test Automation) grow into roles in quality assurance expertise or people management.